Sentences with phrase «bias against the conservative»

Republicans probed Zuckerberg about allegations of bias against conservatives and if that is the regular practice of Facebook.
«It's difficult to ignore that this action comes during a period of heightened tension regarding Facebook's role in our elections, and its perceived bias against conservative voices,» Petersen wrote in an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says many Americans are concerned that Facebook is biased against conservatives.
Rep. Steve Scalise, R - La., asked Zuckerberg about a report that found that a new algorithm Facebook uses to determine what appears in users» newsfeeds had a «tremendous bias against conservative news and content, and a favorable bias toward liberal content.»
Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee invited Hardaway and Richardson to speak at a hearing on «Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms» as poster children for Facebook's bias against conservatives.
He didn't get flustered when Sen. Ted Cruz implied that Facebook is biased against conservatives, or defensive when Sen. John Kennedy said bluntly that, «Your user agreement sucks.»
-- Republicans suggested repeatedly that Facebook was biased against conservatives, which Zuckerberg denied.
To address allegations of bias, Facebook is bringing in two outside advisors — one to conduct a legal audit of its impact on underrepresented communities and communities of color, and another to advise the company on potential bias against conservative voices.
Those who believe that the episode epitomizes journalism's bias against conservatives point to the willingness of a prestige publication and a respected editor to embarrass themselves out of deference to progressive feelings.
The meeting came alive when one activist accused the BBC of systematic bias against the Conservatives.
In the last four general elections the voting system has delivered significant bias against the Conservative party.
Yet on the other side, Facebook has purposefully tried to avoid seeming biased against conservatives.

Not exact matches

Once again, this series focused on the possibility that seemingly unrelated factors may have conspired against Peterson, as the conservative jury may have been biased against him due to his bisexuality.
House Republicans and conservative media cast it as proof of Trump's long - running narrative of FBI bias against him; Democrats say it's deeply misleading, twisting and cherry - picking classified intelligence to make the president seem right.
Late on Saturday afternoon, House Democrats surprised the country by releasing their rebuttal to the so - called Nunes memo — the document, prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), that has become a key part of the conservative argument that the FBI is biased against President Donald Trump.
House Republicans and conservative media cast the Nunes memo as proof of Trump's long - running allegations of FBI bias against him.
Conservatives can be the party that reduces the tax system's bias against working parents, that uses markets to increase the productivity of our enormous health care system, and that transforms our welfare state to make work and family formation a better deal.
In the broadcast era, TV news was the number - one broadcast - era gatekeeper, which is one reason conservatives still rage against a «liberal media» and «media bias» that they saw as directed towards them.
Conservative columnist Kyle O'Connor explains how the media ignored Ohio Gov. John Kasich's intentions behind his sexual assault remark due to a bias against Republican politicians.
Ironically during one of these appearances he jokingly accused the BBC of bias against him and the Conservatives by allowing him to host the show in the first place.
The Irascibles (irascible meaning to be easily angered) was a group of American abstract artists that protested against the conservative bias in the selections for a national contemporary art competition held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Because of this, we attempt to be as «conservative» in our model calibration as possible; that is, we assign very high values of damages and risks of SGE, in order to bias our results against SGE deployment.
Republicans, meanwhile, recently have been fuming that Facebook is biased against their viewpoints, to the detriment of conservative employees and news sources.
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